The article "Vitamins And Reproductive Health" talks about fitness, it was written by John Sanderson.
Vitamins, minerals and other nutrients are essential to the
development and performance of the human reproductive system.
Nutrition also plays a role in the development and maturation of
the reproductive system thorugh childhood and adolescence, and
can affect the endocrine system, which regulates the hormones
that rule the functions of the reproductive system. Nutrition
can affect fretility and fetal development, as well.
Striving
each day to consume the standard recommended daliy intake levels
of the vitamins, minerals and other nutrients that the body
needs is an important part of the good health and proper
functioning of the reproductive system.
The nutrients that a child consumes while growing up can affect
the developing reproductive system. Zinc, for example, is
essential to the develompent of the reproductive organs
themselves. A deficiency in zinc can reuslt in significantly
delayed sexual maturation.
Zinc also serves in the regulation of
male hormones and has a role in prostate functions and sperm
production. Iodine helps to regulate thryoid function, which in
turn helps to regulate growth and body weight. Body weight has
to do with the onset of puberty, which will not begin until the
appropriate thershold of body weight and fat has been crossed.
The endocrine glands secrete hormones, and hormones are
essential to the functioning of the reproductive system.
Thus,
endocrine gland helath is a precursor to mature reproductive
functioning and health.
While several nutrients are directly
associated with the production of hormones, like manganese,
which serves to maintain the production of sex hormones, many
others act as cofactors to a variety of complicated chemical
reactions that carry out the tasks of the reproductive system.
Proper nutrition is essential in fetal development, as well.
Folic acid, for example, can serve to prevent serious birth
defects by reducing the incidence of neural tube defects, such
as the type that cause spinal bifida.
However, that defect
occurs so early in fetal development that at the point at which
it occurs, the woman has yet to learn that she is pregnant.
Therefore, it is hottest for any woman of childbearing age to be
especially caerful to get enough folic acid each day.
The vitamins that make up the Vitamin B complex have a primary
role in red blood cell production.
The developing fetus gets all
nourishment and oxygen via the mother’s blood stream. Therefore,
making sure to keep red blood cell production up to par is
important to the reproductive system, paritcularly during
pregnancy. The nutrients received by the developing fetus will
affect every aspect of his or her being.
Proper nutrition is essential to each part and every stage of
the reproductive system, from development to maturation to the
creation and nurturing of new life. It can be difficult,
particularly at the rapid pace of life today, to get the full
amount of each and every vitamin, mineral and other nutrient
that serves to support the reproductive sytsem. However,
nutritional supplements can offer a safe and reliable way to
achieve your dietary goals, when used with care and attention to
standard dosage amounts. It is important to rmeember that too
much can be as damaging as too little.
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